Greg Dorsey

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Greg Dorsey

Independent

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 8, 2016

Contact

Personal website

Greg Dorsey was a 2016 independent candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Maryland. Dorsey did not qualify for the general election ballot.

Elections

2016

See also: United States Senate election in Maryland, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated Maryland's U.S. Senate race as safely Democratic. In the U.S. Senate race in Maryland, incumbent Barbara Mikulski chose to retire, leaving the seat open in 2016. The election attracted a large number of Democratic, Republican and independent candidates. Chris Van Hollen (D) defeated Kathy Szeliga (R), Arvin Vohra (Libertarian), Margaret Flowers (Green), and several write-in candidates in the general election on November 8, 2016. Van Hollen defeated nine other Democrats to win the nomination, and Szeliga defeated 13 other Republicans in the primary. The primary elections took place on April 26, 2016.

U.S. Senate, Maryland General Election, 2016

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Chris Van Hollen	60.9%	1,659,907
	Republican	Kathy Szeliga	35.7%	972,557
	Green	Margaret Flowers	3.3%	89,970
	N/A	Write-in	0.1%	3,736
Total Votes				2,726,170
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections

U.S. Senate, Maryland Democratic Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Chris Van Hollen	53.2%	470,320
Donna Edwards	38.9%	343,620
Freddie Dickson	1.7%	14,856
Theresa Scaldaferri	1.5%	13,178
Violet Staley	1.2%	10,244
Lih Young	1%	8,561
Charles Smith	0.9%	7,912
Ralph Jaffe	0.8%	7,161
Blaine Taylor	0.7%	5,932
Ed Tinus	0.3%	2,560
Total Votes		884,344
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections

U.S. Senate, Maryland Republican Primary, 2016

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Kathy Szeliga	35.6%	135,337
Chris Chaffee	13.7%	52,066
Chrys Kefalas	9.6%	36,340
Richard Douglas	7.6%	29,007
Dave Wallace	6.1%	23,226
Sean Connor	5.7%	21,727
Lynn Richardson	5.5%	20,792
John Graziani	4.4%	16,722
Greg Holmes	4.3%	16,148
Mark McNicholas	2.6%	9,988
Joseph Hooe	2.2%	8,282
Anthony Seda	1%	3,873
Richard Shawver	0.8%	3,155
Garry Yarrington	0.8%	2,988
Total Votes		379,651
Source: Maryland State Board of Elections

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Dorsey's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“	Good Government Priorities: Eliminate gerrymandering. Congressional term limitations. Supreme Court term limitations. Electoral College reform. Dismantle professional lobbying. Promote non-partisan blanket open primaries. Money and Politics: I stand in dissent. I am adamantly against the corrosive force of money within our American democracy. We the People's voices are becoming diminished, if not silenced, with the billions of dollars that PAC's, Super PAC's, special interest and advocacy groups self-servingly unload on to the political landscape. And what about the Republican and Democratic national and state committees and slates that slide money back and forth at all political levels in the hope to gain or sustain party power and dominance? Can your vote be "purchased"? I would tenaciously support and promote responsible and aggressive campaign finance reform. Fiscal Responsibility and Government Efficiency: I support smaller and more efficient government. I would support a complete audit and review period for every US federal and Maryland state government agency/office/program. If tax dollars support the payroll and expenditures then "WE the People" deserve to know what we are paying for and why we are paying for it. Transparency, efficiency and necessity... Environmentally Concerned: Without fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink and uncontaminated food to eat farmed from fertile and hydrated soil, we as HUMANS are nothing. Climate change is now fact, not fiction. We owe it to our children, and to ALL future generations, to make logical decisions and create responsible legislation to promote a sustainable future for all time to come. I fully support the development and application of wind and solar energy, this technology in here and now. Tax Code: We pay local property tax, state personal income tax, federal personal income tax, payroll tax and possibly capital gains tax and estate tax; and corporations pay state corporate income tax and federal corporate income tax. And what about state sales tax, the excise tax on fuel and local/state government fees? All of this would not sound so bad if there was "clear, present and consistent" middle class wage growth and job creation - a tax base, not a tax burden, right?	”
—Greg Dorsey's campaign website, http://www.gregdorseyunaffiliated.com/policy.html

See also

• United States Senate
• United States Senate election in Maryland, 2016

External links

Suggest a link

• Campaign website
• Facebook page

Footnotes

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Maryland's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Angela Alsobrooks (D)

Chris Hollen (D)

Representatives

District 1

Andrew Harris (R)

District 2

John Olszewski (D)

District 3

Sarah Elfreth (D)

District 4

Glenn Ivey (D)

District 5

Steny Hoyer (D)

District 6

April McClain-Delaney (D)

District 7

Kweisi Mfume (D)

District 8

Jamie Raskin (D)

Democratic Party (9)

Republican Party (1)